Native American Tribe's Battle Over Beer Brews

[Chris_]

Native American Tribe's Battle Over Beer Brews

Anheuser-Busch, Fat Che's Little Brothert and MillerCoors are among the big beer makers the Oglala Sioux tribe has accused of illegally selling millions of cans of beer each year in Whiteclay, Neb. The town borders Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which is located across the state line in South Dakota and is dry.

Lying on sidewalks in Whiteclay, passed out against storefronts day and night, are some Native Americans who come here every day to drink. The town has just one central road, a grocery, a couple of abandoned buildings and four liquor stores. Each year, those four stores sell what amounts to 4 million cans of beer.

And who lives in Whiteclay? According to the latest census: 11 people. That's right. Only 11 residents in a town that sells 4 million cans of beer each year.

NPR

That's a lot of beer.

[vesta111]

NPR

That's a lot of beer.

From what I understand these stores are not on the Indian land----right ????  If not the tribes have no right to control anything off their land.  They have the right to control their community , have their own laws, police departments, hospitals, fire department, and schools.

So it is up to the tribes to take responsibility for the action of their citizens,  BTW no one gives away free beer, were is the money coming from to buy all this beer ???

Darn but the rum runners made a fortune bringing in booze and guns to the tribes in the 1800's .    So tit for tat,  we brought the Indians Booze, but they in return gave us something much worse TOBACCO, SNUFF.

[DumbAss Tanker]

So **** them.  If they want to build casinos and tobacco stores on res land to avoid all sorts of taxes and licensing laws that would otherwise apply off their land, they can just deal with the flip side of the same coin.